Juggernaut is a better all-around class and you can play as both tank and DPS. It's very starter friendly. Empire dominates most servers.

Yes the mid level bracket is not particular fun - especially if you are new to pvp in general. I have actually given up, and begun to run FPs in order to reach level +50 before I try again I really hope it gets better later on.

I am new to pvp but I prefer to fight sentinels on my operative (level 22). They don't run or use force armor and they can't knock me away. So umm... I can't really sell you on them. The swords sounds intimidating?

And now I know this as well

These sure sound very fun, but I would be terrible afraid of being the one messing things up.

Thank you all! - so much valuable information here. @georgemattson I have tweaked my UI on several occasions and I think the current setup works okay. Time will show @Banderal My very first game was Huttball! I have recoreded the horror and will try to upload it soon. It was a... strange experience. Confusing for certain, but perhaps not as terrible as I imagined. To clarify: I was terrible for certain, but the experience was better than expected. The next warzone was an Arena Match, and it was pretty miserable and it made we want to turn of chat... @DomiSotto The first Arena Match was not a lot fun, and made want to log out :/. But I did another match later on, and not only did I survive but we won Someone stunned me in a fire trap. It sure felt like an eternity. Check. We did a Alderaan Civil War and someone wrote "g3" in chat while others used east and west. Confusing, but I'll get the hang of it eventually. I hope. Yes I had completely forgotten about all of that, but now I feel kinda committed to this character. Besides I used to play on TRE and I wanted (_was dared!_) to pick a PVP server for this purpose. I have no idea how hard it will be to level this character through the class story on such a server (TOFN). Do people often attack you out in the open? @Icykill_ I started at level 10 I have now done 7 Warzones in total. I am missing the Coast one and some of the Arena Matches I think.

I have! I have read a lot of her journey and it's one of the reasons I am even going to try this. Thank you, that is very specific. I will do that. I think I get the general gist of what you are saying. Oh and I will not be anywhere near level 60 on this character for a very long time hehe. But some day (I hope!). 2) Yes I have been told to perhaps avoid mid-level pvp altogether. I will try it (eventually) and see how bad it goes. 3) DPS yay! I have been a healer on my sage for sooo long, that I have almost forgotten how to kill things. Just hit level 8 and having fun blasting pve stuff atm! 4) See 3 - sneak and hit, that's the plan. I think having stealth is good to start with. 5) Not sure I understand you here. 6) No worries. I will stay clear forever (I think). At any rate it's very far into the future. 7) This will take some time getting used to. I already have 2 stuns heh. This (finally!) is something I understand. All my skills are usually keybound or bound to my mouse. I rarely, if ever, click. All my new skills are already bound, but I can not move with my mouse. I move with WASD (rarely backpedal, don't worry) and I turn with the mouse. I can only hope that is sufficient, because this is far too ingrained at this point. I will try No panic? There will be panic and lots of it! Rotations... this is a big one I fear. I am very accustomed to proper rotations so... Call for incoming! Yes I will absolutely do this. I have read enough to understand the importance of this - I just hope people will come when I call. That is how it's suppose to work yes? 1) I suspect that will happen very fast and quite naturally 2) I move a lot already. I love to move. People have even commented on this when we do ops. The question is rather if I move correctly. 3) Check! 4) I will hide behind the nearest tank. 5) Stuns will be wasted I am certain. I will check it out, thank you. I have watched some matches here and there, and I have a bit of live coaching (and mockery I am certain!) here at the beginning, but yeah. Understanding where and when to do what is crucial, it get that. Thank you all for the massive feedback! I will absolutely try to capture some of my matches. Only way to improve is to accept critical feedback yes?

I am completely new to pvp - it's basically a challenge - and I hope someone could give me some basic pointers about getting started. Please understand that I am not new to the game, as I have been playing a sage for a long time, but only for PVE I have tried to read some of the sticky threads, but there is just so much information . How exactly do expertise work? I am starting a new character and on a new server (pvp tomb of freedon nadd). My brother has advised me to try an Operative (never been empire before, should also be interesting).